On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:10:21PM -0500, Chris Cheney arranged a set of bits into the following: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:31:08PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:14:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Please don't do this yet, since dselect is still more self-documenting, > > > and therefore easier for new people to use. :-P > > > > please do! dselect (whil ebeing verty simple and functional) has the > > most counter-intuitive user interface i have seen. the day i discovered > > aptitude and got rid of dselect meant a big step forward for my persoanl > > debian experience. > > From what I have heard about aptitude it has the fun side effect of > removing packages that it thinks you didn't purposely install. Also > aptitude's sort function was more user unfriendly than dselect by far > (just hit 'o'). I happen to use the sort option in dselect often. If > aptitude can be used as dselect is now, eg hit 'g' to download just > standard it will be ok I suppose. Much as I like aptitude I can confirm this, recently installing a new LDAP server I went in to aptitude to install some more packages (vim, less, etc.) and I noticed (while watching it in action) that it removed libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap. I immediatly killd it then (bad move). Now as the machine authenticated via LDAP to our existing server and I usually use SUDO this meant I couldn't become root to fix it (Both sudo and su need to know who you are). I then rebooted. Another bad move. Aptitude had also removed raidtools2 and this server had /var on a software raid5. It's surprisingly HARD to get dpkg going without a /var partition (can't read man pages to figure it out on the machine). Eventually I take a floppy and go over to the only other server running software raid and cp its raidstart to the new server and get it up...
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